The appearance of the new Volkswagen Golf Variant / SportWagen shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone familiar with VW’s recent work. And with the all-new MKVII Golf appearing last fall, it was only a matter of time before we saw a new Golf Variant—that’s German-market-speak for “wagon”—the previous version of which was sold here as the Jetta SportWagen. Thanks to a few images leaked somewhere between Wolfsburg and the nether regions of the interwebs—from Russia, perhaps—we now see that the new wagon wears a rakish set of duds largely cribbed from its stablemate.

The new model eschews the bulbous rear of the old car in favor of a look that falls in line with VW’s more-creased current design language, and it also sports Wolfsburg’s latest taillamp style. Full details will have to wait until later, but we have a good idea of what to expect. A U.S.-market version should be available with a 1.8-liter turbo four or a 2.0-liter turbo-diesel under the hood, with transmission choices including VW’s DSG dual-clutch automatic or a six-speed manual. The outgoing Jetta SportWagen made use of the PQ35 architecture, but this new model will share its MQB bones with the new Golf.

Further questions remain regarding the car’s name in this country; the “Jetta SportWagen,” “Golf SportWagen,” and “SportWagen” monikers are all in the running. Regardless of the car’s name on this side of the pond, it will head into production later this year. The MkVII three- and five-door Golf hatchbacks don’t arrive here until the spring of 2014, so don’t look for this in American dealerships until after that.